Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 15 – A transgender has been killed in Narayanghad Chitwan on Saturday night. A dead body of transgender Dipika Uprety(26) was retrieved from a damaged truck near to Lionchowk, Chitwan.<\/p>\n
She was working as a volunteer in\u00a0Human Conscious Society), a LGBTI rights and HIV advocacy organization based in Chitwan district of Nepal.<\/p>\n
Dipika\u2019s family has registered an FIR at police office demanding legal action against those involved in murder.\u00a0 Police Official Sushil Singh Rathaur suspected the murder of Uprety saying that there are two serious injuries in head. Police was informing this community not to stay in this area.<\/p>\n
Depika was working to ensure the rights of sexual and gender minority, HIV AIDS prevention since 10 years. Family members expelled her due to the separate gender identity.<\/p>\n
Dipika\u2019s last rite has been performed on Sunday. Former member of Constituent Assembly Sunil Babu Pant deplored the killing of Dipika.\u00a0 \u201cI add my voice calling Nepal government to ensure right to life and safety\/security of all LGBTIs in Nepal,\u201d Pant said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu (Pahichan) October 15 – A transgender has been killed in Narayanghad Chitwan on Saturday night. A dead body of transgender Dipika Uprety(26) was retrieved from a damaged truck near to Lionchowk, Chitwan.
\nShe was working as a volunteer in\u00a0Human Conscious Society), a LGBTI rights and HIV advocacy organization based in Chitwan district of Nepal.
\nDipika\u2019s family has registered an FIR at police office demanding legal action against those involved in murder.\u00a0 Police Official Sushil Singh Rathaur suspected the murder of Uprety saying that there are two serious injuries in head. Police …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,621,490,3],"tags":[157,458],"class_list":["post-11200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issue","category-news","category-slider","category-society","tag-sunil-babu-pant","tag-transgender"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11205,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11200\/revisions\/11205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}